Jessica Heller Bhatt

Over her career as psychologist, Jessica Heller-Bhatt has worked with diverse client populations supporting vulnerable children, young people, and adults. In her early career, she worked with individuals struggling with substance misuse in the Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) space. This was followed by her role as a Parents under Pressure (PuP) therapist working with family systems facing a multitude of adversity, including mental health issues, homelessness, intimate partner violence, child abuse/neglect and substance dependence.

As a child protection District Psychologist, Jessica provided support to children, young people, and their families to promote increased family functioning and prevent children from entering out-of-home care. She specialised in dyadic/relational assessments to improve professional understanding of the unique and individual struggles faced by clients to deliver intervention more specifically tailored to the individuals’ needs. Her role further comprised clinical consultation to child protection workers and team leaders, and large-scale training delivery to departmental staff across the great southern of Western Australia. More recently, Jessica has been working in a private capacity providing assessments and clinical interventions via Telehealth, including for NDIS clients. She also holds a part-time position as a Clinical Psychologist Registrar at a care-school for disadvantaged youth, who have faced significant developmental adversity and require alternative schooling away from the

mainstream high school system. 

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Jessica worked as a Psychology tutor for the University of Western Australia (UWA) for a number of years and has been delivering training to mental health clinicians and allied health care staff in attachment theory and practice since 2019. She has also presented as guest lecturer in her area of expertise in the tertiary sector.